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The Power of Connection

The Power of Connection. Why connect?. Ecclesiastes 4:9-12. Profit. If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!. Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work:. Provision. Why connect?.

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The Power of Connection

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  1. The Power of Connection

  2. Why connect? Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Profit • If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up! • Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work: Provision

  3. Why connect? Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 Protection • Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone • Though one may be overpowered, two can defend themselves. A cord of three strands is not quickly broken. Power

  4. Does this sound familiar? Don’t get too close Depend on yourself Don’t worry about someone else’s problems/issues Fear of Connecting

  5. The Protection Our Mission is to: … People to live without limits! Establish • Plug in to a Christian environment • Provide a Christian foundation • To instill Christian values

  6. The Provision Our Mission is to: … People to live without limits! Encourage • Become motivated to learn and share • Hebrews 10: 24 – 25

  7. The Profit Our Mission is to: … People to live without limits! Elevate • Capture and hang on to the reward • Ephesians 4:11-15

  8. The Power Our Mission is to: … People to live without limits! Empower • Get the tools to live life without limits • Helping others to enjoy • Begin or lead a ministry

  9. Biblical Foundation: Two Basic Connections Matthew 22:36-40 • Vertical Connection - Love the Lord your God • Horizontal Connection - Love your neighbor as yourself

  10. Biblical Foundation: Two Basic Connections Matthew 22:36-40 • Vertical Connection - Love the Lord your God • Horizontal Connection - Love your neighbor as yourself

  11. Your Vertical Connection God • Faith in Christ • John 3:16 • Ephesians 2: 8-9 You

  12. Your Vertical Connection God • Faith in Christ • John 3:16 • Ephesians 2: 8-9 • Obeying Scripture • 1 John 5 You

  13. Your Vertical Connection God • Faith in Christ • John 3:16 • Ephesians 2: 8-9 • Obeying Scripture • 1 John 5 • Evidence of faith in everyday life • Philippians 2: 12 - 13 You

  14. Your Horizontal Connection God • Love one another • 1 John 4:7-11 You

  15. Your Horizontal Connection God • Love one another • 1 John 4:7-11 • Consider others as more important than ourselves • Philippians 2: 3-4 You

  16. Prepare Yourself • Get the tools – You have everything you need • Spiritual transformation • Gain Confidence from the Bible • Draw Power from the Holy Spirit • Build character through trials

  17. Prepare Yourself • Get the tools • Spiritual transformation • Gain Confidence from the Bible • Draw Power from the Holy Spirit • Build character through trials

  18. Prepare Yourself • Get the tools • Spiritual transformation • Gain Confidence from the Bible • Draw Power from the Holy Spirit • Build character through trials

  19. Prepare Yourself • Get the tools • Spiritual transformation • Gain Confidence from the Bible • Draw Power from the Holy Spirit • Build character through trials

  20. Prepare Yourself • Get the tools • Spiritual transformation • Gain Confidence from the Bible • Draw Power from the Holy Spirit • Build character through trials

  21. Staying Connected How we lose connections: • Actively • Galatians 5: 13-16 • Never throw out anyone

  22. Staying Connected How we lose connections: • Actively • Galatians 5: 13-16 • Never throw out anyone • Passively • Excuses • Drifting

  23. Habits that benefit others Confidence in helping others grows from: • Continuous renewal of the mind (Romans 12:2)

  24. Habits that benefit others Confidence in helping others grows from: • Continuous renewal of the mind (Romans 12:2) • Confessing our sins (1 John 1:9)

  25. Habits that benefit others Confidence in helping others grows from: • Continuous renewal of the mind (Romans 12:2) • Confessing our sins (James 5:16) • Seeing privilege in assisting others (2 Cor 1: 3 -4)

  26. Importance of connecting • The body can’t work without the parts

  27. Importance of connecting • The body cant work without the parts • We need each other because of our different gifts

  28. Importance of connecting • The body cant work without the parts • We need each other because of our different gifts • Heaven is a speckled bird

  29. Situational Issues When you’re faced with: • Participating in a church function or need

  30. Situational Issues When you’re faced with: • Participating in a church function or need • Connecting with someone new

  31. Situational Issues When you’re faced with: • Participating in a church function or need • Connecting with someone new • Hanging with your “old” friends

  32. Strategies for Building Christian Relationships • Love God, and Love People (Matthew 22: 36-40)

  33. Strategies for building Christian Relationships • Love God, and Love People (Matthew 22: 36-40) • Prioritize relationships (Romans 16: 17-18)

  34. Strategies for building Christian Relationships • Love God, and Love People (Matthew 22: 36-40) • Prioritize relationships (Romans 16: 17-18) • Be Happy (Matthew 5:14)

  35. Strategies for building Christian Relationships • Love God, and Love People (Matthew 22: 36-40) • Prioritize relationships (Romans 16: 17-18) • Be Happy (Matthew 5:14) • Manage conflict

  36. Strategies for building Christian Relationships • Love God, and Love People (Matthew 22: 36-40) • Prioritize relationships (Romans 16: 17-18) • Be Happy (Matthew 5:14) • Manage Conflict • Listen

  37. Strategies for building Christian Relationships • Love God, and Love People (Matthew 22: 36-40) • Prioritize relationships (Romans 16: 17-18) • Be Happy (Matthew 5:14) • Manage Conflict • Listen • Share values and interests

  38. Thank You!

  39. Notes

  40. Hebrews 10:24-25 (New International Version) • 24And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds. 25Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching. • Ephesians 4:11-15 (New International Version) • 11It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. • 14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. • 1 Timothy 6:6 (New International Version) • 6But godliness with contentment is great gain. • 2 Corinthians 5:17 (New International Version) • 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! • John 3:16 (New International Version) • 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son,[a] that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. • 2 Corinthians 3:18 (New International Version) • 18And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect[a] the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit. • 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (New International Version) • 16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work • Ephesians 2:8-9 (New International Version) • 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. • 1 John 5:3 (New International Version) • 3This is love for God: to obey his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, • Galatians 5:13-16 (New International Version) • 13You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature[a]; rather, serve one another in love. 14The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."[b]15If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. 6So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. • 1 John 4:7-11 (New International Version) • 7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son[a] into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for[b] our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

  41. Philippians 2:3-4 (New International Version) • 3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. • 2 Peter 1:3-4 (New International Version) • 3His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. • 2 Timothy 3:16-17 (New International Version) • 16All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work • 1 Peter 1:6-7 (New International Version) • 6In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. • Matthew 22:36-40 (New International Version) • 36"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" 37Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.'[a]38This is the first and greatest commandment. 39And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'[b]40All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments." • Romans 12:2 (New International Version) • 2Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. • James 5:16 (New International Version) • 16Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. • 2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (New International Version) • 3Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. • Romans 16:17-18 (New International Version) • 17I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. 18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. • Matthew 5:4 (New International Version) • 4Blessed are those who mourn,       for they will be comforted.

  42. The Connection Journey • Biblical Background of Connecting • Why is it important • Situational Issues • Strategies for build Christian Relationships

  43. Importance of Connecting Spreading the word: • John 17: 20 – 23 • 20"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: 23I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.

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